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mushy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mushy has 2 senses
- mushy(s = adj.all) Array - having the consistency of mush; Array Derived forms noun mush2, noun mush1, noun mushiness1
- mushy(s = adj.all) bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" Derived form noun mushiness2
CIDE DICTIONARY
mushy, a.
Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. [1913 Webster]
"She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
mushy
baccate, bathetic, beery, bland, boggy, changeable, cloudy, cloying, corny, doughy, flabby, fleshy, foggy, gooey, gushing, halfhearted, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, macerated, masticated, maudlin, mawkish, milk-and-water, milky, miry, misty, namby-pamby, neutral, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pappy, pasty, pithy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, sticky, succulent, sugary, swampy, syrupy, tasteless, tear-jerking, teary, vague, vapid, vaporous, vapory, watery, wet, wishy-washy
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